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As a kid in the early 2000, I wake up very early in the morning to watch my favorite cartoon show Pokémon. After I watch the show, I am off to play outside with my friends until dark because the internet at that time wasn’t so easily accessible nor did any social media exist. I never imagine that by 2014, people’s desire to use social media is the reason for home internet subscription and a phone plan with data. Although I do feel like social is great for online communication, I don’t see it as being a necessity and people don’t have to be on social media so often like an obsession. I think that life will be alright without social media for a day or more. I think that online communications lessen the quality of friendship and increase the number of friends that people have online. In today’s society, it is normal to add someone onto one’s social networking site whether it’s an old friend or a new …show more content…

It’s been 9 months without social media and the reason I don’t use social media is by choice. I only communicate with friends and family through my parent’s home phone, personal cell phone, and email. As I write this assignment, I check my Facebook and I see that things are just like it was when I left. At the time when I decide to not use social media because I know I waste too much time on it. That time waste can be exchange to other experience. I use Facebook for 5 years and the concept just don’t appeal to me no more. It is fun at first, but things have change and I don’t think the same way 5 years ago. I think that people must move on to do other things and not dedicate so much of their time into social network in order to grow as a person. I’m more incline to Facebook and I choose Facebook as my choice if I have to use a social media site because it’s easy to use and have all the features

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